Corporate Finance and Strategy: Optimizing Your Business

Corporate finance -how businesses fund their operations in order to maximize profits and reduce costs. It is the day-to-day operations of a business’s cash flows and long-term financial goals

Strategic Versus Tactical Financial Management

A company is being strategic instead of tactical if it makes financial decisions based on long-term goals rather than short-term. the ability to recognize proper strategic versus tactical management decisions is a cardinal rule of a professional business strategy.

“Strategic” management focuses on long-term success and

“Tactical” management relates to short-term positioning.

Strategic financial management means not only managing a company’s finances but managing them with the intention to succeed—that is, to attain the company’s long-term goals and objectives and maximize shareholder value over time

“Strategic” management focuses on long-term success and “tactical” management relates to short-term positioning.

Capital structure.

1. Debt: Debt can come in the form of bank loans, bonds, notes payable, and more.
2. Equity: shareholders buy shares in exchange for future payouts.
3. Internal financing: Companies can also acquire capital internally, including selling assets, generating profits, and reducing working capital.

CBC offers the following financial tools to assist in corporate strategy and finance.

• Analytical skills
• Logical thinking
• Problem-solving
• Financial expertise